Du Bois v. The H. S. Nichols
District Court, S.D. New York
In Admiralty. These were two libels by Jacob Du Bois, as owner of scow No. 3, against the steam tng H. S. Nichols and the steam tug Ceres, in the one case, and against the steam tug G. W. Wright and the tug James T. Easton, in the other. Decree for libelant against the Nichols and the Easton, and exempting the Ceres and the Wright.
1Opinion of the Court
BBOWN, District Judge.
The libelant is the owner of scow No. 3
which was employed in taldng mud from New York to and beyond Sandy Hook, to be dumped within the prescribed limits. Like other scows in this service, she had no motive power of her own, but was towed with two other scows behind her by a tug upon a hawser about 400 or 500 feet long, the two scows behind No. 3 being connected closely together by a short hawser. Quite a number of scows and tugs are in this service. They draw from 7 to 12 feet. The usual route lies through the Coney island channel, a passage which appears from the chart…
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